American prophets: seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice 9780691164304, 0691164304

American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-centur

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English Pages xvii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Year 2016

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American prophets: seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice
 9780691164304, 0691164304

Table of contents :
Abraham Joshua Heschel, prophet of divine pathos --
A.J. Muste: the redemptive power of nonviolent suffering --
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: doing the works of mercy --
Howard Thurman: in search of common ground --
Thomas Merton: contemplation in a world of action --
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: religion in US politics --
"Is this America?" Fannie Lou Hamer and the voices of local people.

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